The conference, designed as a meeting space for students and beginning researchers of Medieval Britain from across the Humanities, is the fifth in a series after Prague 2012, Giessen 2013, Bonn 2014, and Prague 2016. We invite both full papers and work in progress reports on all aspects of medieval literature, language and culture.

Doc. Michal Pullmann is a CUFA alumnus, having studied History and Sociology. Since 2010, he has been Director of the Department of Economic and Social History, CUFA, where he made his habilitation in 2014 with a thesis on The End of the Experiment. Reconstruction and Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia.

On 17 January, Mirjam Friend, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Zhanna Nemtsova, founder of the Boris Nemtsov Fund, signed a contract establishing the Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre for the Study of Russia at the Faculty of Arts.

The Centre for Dutch language and Culture organizes the sixth postgraduate and post-doctorate colloquium on 7 - 10 March 2018 with the generous support of the Dutch Language Union, Charles University, the Flemish representation, and the Embassy of The Netherlands

Let’s help the Library! (Pomozme knihovně!) is a charitable fundraiser organized in order to aid the restoration of the Mosul University library. The fundraiser is organised by the Faculty of Arts in cooperation with People in Need. As of 15 January, the fundraiser has managed to collect 201 567 CZK.